Ross Scott's stopkillinggames.com campaign

[Jobbo]

Further evidence that no publicity is bad publicity - negative or positive. A bit of a result.

[Matty]

I've seen some of that Pirate Software channels stuff before. Usually informative, but he clearly had a massive ego problem just from watching his shorts.

I still remember how he said he refused to watch Mr Robot as they had "stolen" content from another security professional.....except that security profession was a consultant on the show, which was well known from a quick Google.
He doubled down on it again later in his future content, despite corrections from comments.

As Simon says, all publicity is good publicity so it's clearly worked in favour of SKG....been a massive, massive PR plunder from PS though, and despite it all....still no apology or correction

[Beany]

Yeah, I've seen people making lists of eight or nine times he's done exactly the following:

Talked shit about something - possibly in error. Opportunity to go "Oh, whoopsy, looks like I dun goofed".
Nope, double down. Create hypotheticals and strawmans that aren't related, to knock down so that he looks correct.
When it's pointed out that's bollocks, go scorched earth in his comments and chats, blocking and banning anyone who mentions it until it blows over. Triple down, quadruple down, etc.

Under no circumstances can he be wrong!

He really does come across as an utter bellend but because he speaks in an authoritative manner, people who know sod all about development or systems architecture etc just gobble it up.

Good to see him get dunked on in a major way, as opposed to little localised skirmishes here or there. He's one of the most hated people on the internet right now

[Beany]

The European Citizens' Initiative is OPEN!
1,011,737

[Beany]

The Industry has woken up, got it wrong, and talked shite.

[RobYob]

At the stage of evil being incompetent, long may it continue.

[Matty]

1.4m million signatures now as well, so should cover the duplicates that usually get wiped. Good news.

Also, referencing the other tangent, that Pirate Software fella has lost nearly 250,000 subs after the fallout of all this - people digging into all kinds of his old stuff, various streamers are making loads of drama vids about his poor coding, the weird video where he can't even apologise to his dad after he missed his birthday, and the "I hardly ever mention Blizzard" is hilarious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y03L5KlXDLg

He's being absolutely dragged....all because his ego.

[RobYob]

He's being absolutely dragged....all because his ego.

On a only vaguely related tangent, yesterday the Aus national broadcaster ABC published a bit on US right to repair champion Louis Rossman getting a YouTube strike from an Aussie programmer of PlayStation decoding software he exposed.

Turns out said programmer had a very nasty history of using remote admin malware to produce CP and after serving (far too short) a time in prison really should not have done anything to draw attention to himself.

[Beany]

Interesting.



Digital Fairness Act in the EU has opened up for comments. Can suggest "hey, maybe swing a little in the direction of videogames and protect them too" in the comments.

Obviously, not useful to the UK, but still, other options beyond the ECI.